24.04.2024 - Day dedicated to the memory of the Armenian genocide

The day of April 24th every year commemorates the massacres of the Armenian people that occurred in the Ottoman Empire during the years of the First World War. These terrible events are remembered in the Armenian language as Medz yeghern, or “the great crime”. The killings began on the night between 23 and 24 April 1915, when the first arrests were made among the Armenian elite of Constantinople. The operation then continued in the following days with numerous deportations towards the interior of Anatolia.

 

On the occasion of the Day dedicated to the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, the Municipality of Venice has been organizing since 2022, on the initiative of the Presidency of the Municipal Council, a series of events and meetings between April and May 2024 in collaboration with the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Armenian Union in Italy and the Europe Direct Venezia Veneto.

 

=> View the complete program with all the information on the event

 

In particular, the following event was organised with the collaboration of Europe Direct of the Municipality of Venice: 

 

Tuesday 16 april, at 10:30 a.m. at Auditorium Santa Margherita "Emanuele Severino" Dorsoduro 3689, Venice

Institutional greetings : Caterina Carpinato, Prorettrice alla Terza Missione, Ca’ Foscari University and Ermelinda Damiano, President of the City Council, Aldo Ferrari, Lecturer in Armenian Language and Literature, Ca’ Foscari University , dialogues con Baykar Sivazliyan, President Unione Armeni d’Italia 

Moderator:  Germana Daneluzzi, President Associazione Civica Lido di Pellestrina

Musicians:  Giuseppe Dal Bianco, flautist and multi-instrumentalist

Lectures:  Mariateresa Crisigiovanni and Lorenzo Scatto dell’Associazione Voci di Carta

 

Regardless of the words we use to describe the terrible events that took place in 1915, there is no denying their historical reality. The European Commission (while recognizing that EU Member States continue to have different opinions on how to name the events of 1915), seeks ways to promote and support reconciliation. Reconciliation is a fundamental foundation of the European project and its basic values. It is essential that, in a spirit of reconciliation, countries are able to address their past through open and frank debates. The EU encourages further significant steps that pave the way for full reconciliation between Turkish and Armenian civil societies.

In particular, the following event is brought to attention:

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